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Spend a few moments just hanging out with the presence of this light or essence in your body. Notice if it has any other qualities besides color, like a texture or a sound or a smell. What are you noticing now? Now, think about this light beginning to move through your body or over your body like a shield or force field (your choice), from the top of your head, moving inch by inch, slowly, until it reaches the bottom of your feet. What are you noticing now? Imagine that a bright and healing light has begun to form overhead. This light can be whatever color you want it to be, whatever you associate with healing, happiness, goodness, or any other positive quality. If you don’t like the idea of a light, you can think of it simply as a color or an essence. What are you noticing? LIGHT STREAM MULTISENSORY VISUALIZATION EXERCISE Draw your attention back to where you first may have cued your body stress. What’s happened to it? If the distress is still there on some level in your body, think about deepening your belly breathing so it makes the light or essence more brilliant and intense, so brilliant and intense that the distress can’t even dream of existing within it. Keep practicing the exercise, in the attitude of patience, if you don’t notice much of a shift the first time. If you have a spiritual practice and feel comfortable bringing in one of your spiritual or religious principles into the exercise, you are welcome to do that SOURCE: EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care By: Jamie Marich & Stephen Dansiger WWW.SPRINGERPUB.COM
